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In 2021, drug-related overdose deaths topped 107,000. Despite a nearly 50% decrease in opioid prescribing over the past decade, drug overdose mortality continues to trend in the wrong direction.
In 2021, drug-related overdose deaths topped 107,000. Despite a nearly 50% decrease in opioid prescribing over the past decade, drug overdose mortality continues to trend in the wrong...
He died by suicide. In an unusual step, his wife sued his pain doctors — a rare legal challenge to decisions to reduce patients’ opioid doses
Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS): A Screening & Treatment Update motor or tropic changes The updated criteria weeds out outlier diseases, added Dr. Harden. ''When we tried to use the Budapest criteria as an entry into research, I have to say all heck broke loose.” There have been several trials that have failed, most likely because CRPS is a multifactorial, multi-mechanism disease. So the treatments under study are not likely to produce results with a significant P value because the population studied has different mechanisms underlying the disease. He said that the Budapest criteria ...
From an opioid manufacturer, the more likely they are to prescribe opioids. >> reporter: as you can see here, the doctors who get paid the most money that. >> prescribe the most opioids. >> we don't know which way that relationship goes. is it that the payments motived the physician to prescribe more, or did the high prescriber attract the money? >> if there is the possibility that paying doctors leads to increases in inappropriate prescribing of these drugs, that's something that we have to take seriously. >> reporter: we showed opioid researcher our findings. >> it shows that the drug compan...